Building Gaming Rig: Are my parts compatible / sufficient?

leoginger

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I am building my first gaming rig. Specs follow:

DEFCON 3i - Asus Z97-K - Intel Core i5 4690K @ 4.20GHz Overclocked Bundle 16gb ram included
MSI NVIDIA GTX 970 Twin Frozr HDMI DVI-I DP Graphics Card
HyperX FURY 2.5" 240GB SATA III Solid State Drive x 2
Corsair 650W CS650M CSM Semi-Modular 80+ GOLD Certified Power Supply
Zalman Z9 Plus Midi Tower Case

Questions are
1) Is everything compatible?
2) Is the PSU sufficient or do i need more power?
3) Will it all fit in the case?
4) Any parts replaceable with better ones for the same price (not including overclocking I just don't trust myself to do it)
Sorry for basic questions have been trying to research but am getting a little bogged down. Validation would be much appreciated. Thanks
 
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Yes yes and yes. If you are not going to overclock you could save a couple bucks and get a non k cpu and an H97 mobo. But I think you should just go with what you have got and look into overclocking. In this day and age it is much safer to tinker around with overclocking. Just do plenty of research about it first. There are tons of instructional videos out there than will show you how it is done.

rowdymoody

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Yes yes and yes. If you are not going to overclock you could save a couple bucks and get a non k cpu and an H97 mobo. But I think you should just go with what you have got and look into overclocking. In this day and age it is much safer to tinker around with overclocking. Just do plenty of research about it first. There are tons of instructional videos out there than will show you how it is done.
 
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